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As Southern states seceded from the Union in the months leading up to the Civil War, Missouri struggled with the decision of whether to rebel and join the new Confederacy. On January 21, 1861, the state
called a convention
to consider the "relations between the Government of the United States ... and the Government and people of the State of Missouri; and to adopt such measures for vindicating the sovereignty of the State, and the protection of its institutions, as shall appear to them to be demanded." On February 18, voters elected an overwhelmingly pro-Union group of representatives to the convention. Despite strong Unionist sentiment, this
set of resolutions
from February or March of 1861 reveal that Missouri was a true border state: one that wanted to preserve slavery and yet ultimately rejected calls to abandon the Union.

This set of resolutions encapsulated the arguments in favor of Missouri remaining in the Union, even as it maintained a strong proslavery position. The opening lines of the document suggest that the convention favored the so-called
Crittenden Compromise
, referring to a set of six constitutional amendments and four Congressional resolutions proposed by Senator John J. Crittenden. Intended to be palatable to both sides, the amendments would have restored the prohibition of slavery north of the 36 degree, 30 minutes line of the Missouri Compromise. Congress would be forbidden from abolishing slavery in slave states and the District of Columbia, and from interfering with the interstate slave trade. Congress would be required to compensate slave owners for escaped slaves. Most controversially, the sixth proposed amendment would forever prohibit future amendments revoking any of the six Crittenden amendments.